Funny story about the 13.5" in the picture above. It hit while I was busy talking to a buddy (typical), but when it took drag I knew it was going to be a good one. I saw its head at the hole and my eyes lit up like headlights, I quickly reached down to scoop it out of the hole. I had it a good 8 inches in the air and it decided it wasn't done yet and flopped back down the hole, and took the drag!

I thought for sure it was lost, but luckily (for my sake, not hers) that it was hooked well enough, and I got to battle twice. I definitely made sure I used the two handed scoop, (like they teach in youth football) to grab it the second time around. After that exciting fiasco, I believe she earned the right to go let those strong eggs hatch, despite the fact that I like to release 12+ inch crappies.

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Goldtip,

I think it might have been because the photo was taken at home, not in the natural environment.

If you have the option to do so, it is best to bring the camera with you fishing and pop a photo fresh out of the hole. It makes for a great photo when the water is dripping from the fins.

Good stuff and great pics Dan189! What type of camera do you use? Excellent quality!

Hey Matt, with just a little digging, it looks like Dan is shooting a Nikon E5600 digital. I too thought those photos turned out really nice. The colors pop nicely and everything is nice and sharp.

some upper red lake action

Some real nice fish there! You got GPS coordinates for us!

polarsusd81,

How did you know that it was a Nikon E5600? just curious.

You are right, the camera belongs to fishlakman, its 5.1 mega pixels, about 2 years old.

I use Sony Cyber-shot, 2.1 mega pixel (6 years old) great slough camera, attaches to me waders and takes excellent pictures of ducks, and the early morning sunrise.

Quackaddict9,

Those are some beautiful upper red lake crappies. What were most measuring at?

I looked up your photobucket album, and under each photo, it tells you what kind of camera took the photo. There are also exif readers that some of the photography guys (me being one of them) have downloaded, that will tell a lot more than just the camera model by clicking on the picture and looking at the properties. You can find out shutter speed, iso, whether or not flash was used, apeture of the lens, all kinds of goodies.

Edit - I should add that this tool that some of us have downloaded really helps when critiquing photos in the photo sharing board. Knowing what the parameters of the photos are allows a person to better understand the situations they were taken in, and sometimes the intent of the photographer.

Some real nice fish dan189, good closeups and release shots, I got some shots kind of like that this last week I'll have to get up.

And those are some real nice crappies quackaddict, how long are those guys?

Very nice crappies Quackaddict

biggest ones were 14 1/2 and 14 5/8". We went out again today from 5 pm-11 pm and caught 15 more slabs! only keeping 4 for a meal. A couple pics below.

13 1/2"



two 14"s



more pics you can look at in Upper Red Lake forum

http://www.fishingminnesota.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/1323135#Post1323135

Here are some from today. No real monsters but some nice slabs.

Here is my fishing partner with a couple nice ones.

Here are some from today! No monsters but nice fish.




A couple more crappies.